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TIL that the greek origin of the word “idiot” was used to mean someone who did not participate in politics and public affairs

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BjxL TIL Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea from 2003 to 2008, killed himself in 2009 by jumping off a cliff. His left-wing party chose to delay the opening of parliament until the right-wing government of the time accepted responsibility for his suicide.
rNe1W TIL due to hyperinflation in Venezuela, a lot of people have resorted to gold farming in Old School Runescape in order to make a living. It has since become so prevalent that the prices of heavily farmed items fluctuates dramatically whenever there's power cuts in the country.
GYnmN TIL that in 1823, an Italian naturalist invented a process for petrifying fresh human cadavers. Accused of practicing Black magic, he burned all his notes. To this day, no one is sure how he did it.
8aVlK TIL Bruce Lee's first student was a black man named Jesse Glover. Glover would also end up becoming Lee's first assistant instructor in the U.S. Glover helped teach Lee about the state of race relations in the U.S at the time.
x8eg TIL that Russia signed a treaty banning bio-weapons, but ignored the treaty and continued developing them - even building ICBMs that could be loaded with weaponized smallpox, anthrax, typhus & rabies. After the fall of the USSR, they lost most of the bioweapons. Their locations remain unknown.